Team Fortress Wiki talk:Technical requests

Jeff

Jeff should know this page exists now. -- Pilk _(talk) 21:33, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

EmbedVideo

I'm under the impression that we're already using this extension, but also, I believe Jeff said he won't upgrade to the latest version because it has security issues or something. We should look into this and find a better Extension. This one is quite annoying. -- Smashman... _{(t • s)} 23:33, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Special:RandomPage

Is there any way that we can make Special:RandomPage not redirect to subpages? Obviously the primary language of the wiki is English, and there's really no point presenting the majority of people with a Russian page who then might click again to get a German page. -- Pilk _(talk) 09:45, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

WindPower has created an extension for use. It's quite brilliant! He's made it so that if you're on an English page, then random page returns only English pages, if you on a localized page then it will only return pages of the same language. Pretty fancy! -- Smashman... _{(t • s)} 10:37, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Source to WindPower's extenstion.  – Smashman _(talk) 20:24, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

The extension requires the SpecialRandomGetRandomTitle hook that was added in 1.16.0. I have successfully installed it on the Alien Swarm Wiki, which also runs on 1.15.4, by simply overwriting 1.15.4's SpecialRandompage.php with the version from 1.16.0, and it seems to work fine. So either an upgrade to 1.16.0 or simply overwriting this file would work. Thanks~ — Wind 20:27, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Update to MediaWiki version 1.16.0

Could we update to MediaWiki version 1.16.0, please? It contains a number of fixes and also, the new Vector skin which should help with usability. Thanks. -- Smashman... _{(t • s)} 10:43, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Valve are most likely keeping to legacy releases at the moment (1.15.*). Vector would be cool, but I assume they have security and compatibility issues to keep in mind. seb26 [talk] 11:06, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Why would they do that? 1.15.4 was the latest version when this wiki was released and if Wikipedia are using it, then it won't have security concerns. Believe me, Wikipedia are more likely to be worried about security, and if they're good with it, then it'll be more than secure enough for our requirements. -- Smashman... _{(t • s)} 11:31, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

That's what I think, but then again, we aren't running the server. There may be other reasons involved. seb26 [talk] 21:29, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Move?

Why, oh, why did you do that? I sent an email to Jeff YESTERDAY to take a look at these. Put them Goddamn back.  – Smashman _(talk) 10:13, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Smashman seb doesn't need your attitude, seriously. If you want it back you should do it. Discussion on the usefulness of a particular request should be on the talk page itself though. Jeff shouldn't have to go through the discussion to determine what we came to the conclusion of. At the moment this upgrade is contentious anyway. It shouldn't be up til we agree on it. -- Pilk _(talk) 10:50, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Well I can't do it, hence my asking to do it. I didn't wish it to be a discussion, it was meant to be a request, but seb decided to have a discussion. I do not see a reason why we wouldn't wish to upgrade. And the RandomPage thing was your request that Wind fulfilled and it merely needs an upload.  – Smashman _(talk) 11:02, 30 August 2010 (UTC)